“But the thing that really made me upset is you look around an organization and there’s always stuff that goes on during the year, and they try to keep it behind closed doors. With me, AV just went right to the press and buried me and that made it worse. Everything else that happens on that team, they try to keep internal. But when he had a chance to bury me in the media, he did. He never seemed to have my back. I’d by lying if I said I thought I had a chance with him from Day 1.”

Indications are that O’Brien probably will have that chance in Nashville. The Preds seem to genuinely believe he provides an upgrade at the blueline. Still, I can’t wait for that first game against the Canucks and former Predator Dan Hamhuis. Many may remember how Hamhuis made a crack about how the attendance at the Canucks summer summit was similar to a Nashville home game. Lots of interesting non-on-ice storylines for that one.